w8, but I thought all of the big slash important projects like bridges and whatnot had tentpole engineers, like the really superstar smart ones who act as tank on-project, and then armies of regular-sized engineers who handle all the minutea. :3

furtive_turtle

Submitted by furtive_turtle on September 3, 2010 - 2:59am.

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I can't bungy jump thanks to this realisation

AckAckAck

Submitted by AckAckAck on September 3, 2010 - 1:41pm.

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Engineer hive mind? 100 thinking heads is better than one right?

TankCopter

Submitted by TankCopter on September 4, 2010 - 12:45am.

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Never hang around with pilots. Once you've met a pilot, you will never be able to fly without thinking about what that guy who's holding your life in his hands is actually like.

Sheryl

Submitted by Sheryl on September 4, 2010 - 3:42am.

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Yep, that is the horrible truth of the matter. Nobody is really smarter than another person. Some just focus on other things and apply themselves more than others. It is really that simple.

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No...no it isn't that simple. Of course some people are smarter than other people. It's not JUST a matter of focus. Believe me, I've sat down and tried to explain some of the simplest shit you could think of to someone, and they couldn't get it, even after like 10 minutes. And they definitely WERE focusing. their brains just couldn't comprehend. People. Are. STUPID. It's THAT simple.

Roz

Submitted by Roz on September 5, 2010 - 11:22am.

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Try hanging out with crane and telehandler operators. If you knew who was lifting you up in that access platform or putting the pallet on the scaffolding your crew are working on you'd quite rightly be scared.

daviscd

Submitted by daviscd on September 6, 2010 - 4:05am.

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I know this feeling all to well. I had the same epiphany while working on multi-million dollar helicopters in the U.S. MARINES.

AzurisCaine

Submitted by AzurisCaine on September 6, 2010 - 6:05am.

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>_> Same thing goes when you hang out with chefs, how many things can go WRONG with a dish or things that are undercooked that go out because someone didn't double check a dish.

Also with how many people alone touch your plate edges before it even gets to you, when I found that out I'm now terrified to put anything close to a plate edge.

Mortosdersoulstealer

Submitted by Mortosdersoulstealer on September 7, 2010 - 1:33am.

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Scary!!! and it's not too long before the world's goodness relies on me and MY generation...ack!

MM3 Moose

Submitted by MM3 Moose on September 8, 2010 - 3:06pm.

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Try hanging round bunch of Navy Nuke's, kind of scary to think that we operate power plants

Paul Strealer

Submitted by Paul Strealer on September 12, 2010 - 8:58pm.

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A friend of mine's a retired Navy Nuke. I second this.

BobIsAPerson

Submitted by BobIsAPerson on February 17, 2011 - 8:22pm.

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I tutored the next generation of American engineers for 3 years at UMass Lowell. I hit that realization at about year 0.5. "Ok, so all you have to do is a little bit of vector math... What do you mean 'what's a vector?' How did you pass physics 1?!" ...45 minutes later... "Ok... so we've established that you know how to add... except in cases including decimals..." I am sometimes tempted to tremble with fear when using anything I didn't build myself.

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